All the headlines from our Property Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 30 2015 // The year 2015 was a year during which the property/casualty insurance industry worried and learned about disruptive forces, new competitors, new leaders and emerging risks. Also, some of the industry’s news revived...
Dec 28 2015 // ACE Group announced the future commercial property & casualty leadership team for the new Chubb Group in Asia Pacific. These appointments will take effect upon completion of the acquisition of Chubb, which is expected...
Dec 22 2015 // Departments of Insurance across the country are bracing for the introduction of new commercial property policy language promised by the newly-formed property insurance rating and policy form bureau National Organization of...
Dec 21 2015 // Indiana’s high court has confirmed a lower court’s summary judgment favoring a property insurer that denied a homeowner’s claim after discovering that misleading information about the condition of the...
Dec 21 2015 // It’s a big question in front of landlords of thousands of Los Angeles properties early next year.When the Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted in October for new earthquake retrofit regulations it put in play a...
Dec 16 2015 // Universal Insurance Holdings Inc. in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company (UPCIC) received a certificate of authority from the New...
Dec 14 2015 // An insurer can’t depreciate labor in calculating the actual cash value (ACV) of an insured property in the event of a covered loss, Arkansas high court justices have determined.In an opinion delivered on Dec. 10,...
Dec 14 2015 // First, let’s be clear – this is only a SMALL sampling of simple questions agents and underwriters fail to ask! There are dozens of simple, common sense questions that are often skipped – why remains a...
Dec 7 2015 // Who’s going to pay?It’s a big question in front of landlords of thousands of Los Angeles properties early next year. When the Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted in October for new earthquake retrofit...
Dec 7 2015 // Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort expects to shift about 10,000 policies to private insurance companies for 2016, a move that will reduce premiums by roughly $20 million.Interim Chief Executive Officer...
Dec 7 2015 // The property/casualty insurance industry must change its approach to cyber security and update its coverage approach to help minimize risks, according to a network security expert.“I don’t think we can easily...
Dec 4 2015 // Indiana’s high court has confirmed a lower court’s summary judgment favoring a property insurer that denied a homeowner’s claim after discovering that misleading information about the condition of the...
Dec 3 2015 // ACE Ltd. has appointed the commercial property & casualty leadership team for the company’s Overseas General Insurance division. The leadership appointments will take effect upon completion of the acquisition of...
Dec 1 2015 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon is reminding property insurance policyholders that the deadline to claim a rebate for the Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. assessment charged on their 2011 insurance...
Nov 30 2015 // Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon reported that three insurance companies new to Louisiana are participating in the latest round of depopulation of Citizens Property Insurance Corp.Citizens is the state’s property...
Nov 23 2015 // ACE Ltd. announced the senior leadership team it intends to appoint for the new Chubb Group’s Overseas General Insurance division. This division comprises two major businesses: one with distribution through retail...
Nov 23 2015 // Cincinnati Financial Corp. announced that Stephen M. Spray, senior vice president, will transition to commercial insurance operations at Cincinnati Insurance effective Jan. 1, 2016, establishing the leadership perpetuation...
Nov 20 2015 // South Carolina homeowners living around lakes where dams failed in the historic flooding face uncertainty about when their properties will be waterfront again.The State newspaper reported that rebuilding dams will cost six...
Nov 19 2015 // The property/casualty insurance industry must change its approach to cyber security and update its coverage approach to help minimize risks, according to a network security expert.“I don’t think we can easily...
Nov 17 2015 // Eight years after the introduction of managed competition for private passenger auto insurance and the influx of direct writers and direct response companies into Massachusetts to compete with independent agencies, a new...